The company and Nicholas Sassin, one of its engineers, pleaded guilty to using a makeshift hose-and-pump system to dispose of wastewater from the 42,247-gt pure car carrier City of Tokyo (built 1987).
AML agreed to pay $800,000 in fines and community service payments, while it will undergo an environmental compliance plan and serve three years of criminal probation, the Alaska Dispatch News reports.
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